Katie Holmes

Touched with Fire asks whether love between two thirty-something adults with bipolar disorder can be successful, loosely wondering about the intersection of sensuality, realism, and mental illness. It seems interested to extract a rubric explaining the connection between people with mental illness who are creatives. The film meanders through this exploration rather than makes up its mind as a crea...[Read More]

For the sake of pure disclosure, I’ve never seen the original television movie Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, mostly because it was a bit before my time. I did however watch some clips on YouTube before I sat down to write this review (mainly to see how different the creatures were in the 1970s). That being said, I walked into Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark with no preconceptions, except for the belief...[Read More]